Chapter 14

Miranda walked away, but she never once saw the boy's face. After she was gone, Ivan slowly lifted his head. He was barely a teenager, yet his features were unusually sharp. His eyes stayed on the spot where she had disappeared, and he whispered, "You're the only light in my darkness." Miranda's thoughts snapped back to the present, and shock spread across her face as she remembered. "You… you're that boy from back then?" "I'm the eldest son of the Astor family, one of Seafare City's most powerful families. We're rich and influential, but there are many with ill intentions. I was poisoned before I was born, so I came into the world disabled. "On top of that, I was withdrawn. Even my own parents didn't care for me. Soon, my mom had another son, and they became a happy little family of three. I was just… an extra. "My childhood was nothing but humiliation and scorn. Some people said I was lucky to be born into the Astor family, but others whispered that I was cursed. I was the eldes